Soap-dish.



C. C. BLAKE.

SOAP DISH.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 2. l9l5.

' Patented Dec. 26,1916.

CHARLES C. BLAKE, 0F BROOKLINE, MASSACHUSETTS.

SOAP-DISH.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 26, 11916.

Application filed September 2, 1915. Serial No. 48,749.

To all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, CHARLES C. BLAKE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Brookline, in the county of Norfolk and State ofMassachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement inSoap-Dishes, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to soap dishes.

As heretofore constructed soap dishes in common use have no provisionfor properly draining the water admitted to the dish with the used cakeof soap. Consequently the soap is always in contact with water while inthe dish which results in the formation of a thick jelly-like coating onthe surface of the soap. When the'cake of soap is again used this thickjelly-like coating disintegrates in the hands of the user and forms alather greatly in excess of the I needed amount. Obviously the practiceof keeping soap in these badly drained soap dishes is wasteful of thesoap. Furthermore the soap dishes hereinbefore referred to are made ofsome material which is hard to clean and which excludes the light fromthe interior thereof thus permitting the germs which are removed fromthe hands of the user and admitted to the dish with the cake of soap tolive and to transfer themselves back to the hands of the same or another,user of thesoap.

tion of an economical and sanitary soap dish which will maintain thesoap in a dry and solid condition, which will be easy-to clean and-whichwill permit the flooding of the interior of the dish withgerm-destroying light.

To the accomplishment of this object the features of the presentinvention consist in certain devices, combinations and arrangements ofparts fully set forth hereinafter, the advantages "of which will bereadily understood by those skilled in the I art.

The various features of the present invention will be readily understoodfrom an inspection of the accompanying drawings, in which,

Figure 1 is a plan of the soap dish; Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectionalelevation, and Fig. 3 is a detail end elevation.

In the illustrated embodiment of the invention the soap dish comprises abase 1 provided with a marginal abutment 2 for engagement with a planesupporting surface. The base 1 carries a peripheral wall 3 forming acatch basin and a plurality of posts 4 for supporting the cake of soaprising from the bottom of the catch basin.

The posts are arranged suiiiciently close to support a small cake ofsoap but, owing to the strong capillary attraction between the film ofwater on the soap and the posts they are arranged sufliciently far apartto. overcome this capillary attraction for the purpose of breaking upthe film of water and causing it to pass freely down the posts to thebase of the dish. The posts are rounded at their tops 5 in order tominimize the area of contact between the posts and the soap thuspreventing the formation of a plurality of soft spots therein.

In order to prevent the accumulation of water in the dish and thusmaintain the top of the posts above the water level the wall 3, at theopposite ends of the dish, is provided with spill-ways 6 which arearranged at a level intermediate the tops and bases of the posts. Withthis construction the cake of soap is quickly freed from Water andmaintained in a dry and solid state in good condition for use. As thedish is constructed of glass it is easy to keep clean and the interiorthereof is always flooded with light which destroys the germstransmitted to the dish from the hands of the user through the cake ofsoap.

The nature and scope of the invention having been indicated, and a soapdish embodying the several features of the invention in their preferredform having been specifically described, what is claimed as new, is

As an article of manufacture a one piece soap dish comprising a bodyportion having a peripheral wall forming a catch basin, a plurality ofposts integral with and rising from the bottom of the catch basin forsupporting the soap and draining the water from the soap into the catchbasin, portions of said wall being cut away and forming

